在古代，按公历来说，元旦不仅仅是一月一号这一天。元旦的日期从殷朝腊月初一改到汉朝的正月初一。公元1911年，孙中山领导的辛亥革命 ，推翻了满清的统治，建立了中华民国。各省都督代表在南京开会，决定使用公历，把农历的正月初一叫做“春节”，把公历的1月1日叫做“元旦”。
元旦的由来
英文：
Legend in 4000 years ago, when the ancient yao and shun sheng shi, yao tianzi in office diligent for the people do a lot of good things, by the majority of the people love, but because his son no talent is not too good, he did not pass the "son of heaven" to his son, but to the character and ability of shun. Yao said to shun。
"you must hand over the throne to the peror from now on. Later, shun passed the throne to yu, who did a good job in flood control. Like shun, yu loved the people and did many good deeds for the people. Later people yao died, shun peror worship heaven and earth and first peror yao that day, as the beginning of the year, the first day of the first month known as "New Year's day", or "yuan zheng", this is the ancient New Year's day.
传说在4000多年前远古的尧舜盛世之时，尧天子在位时勤政于民为百姓办了很多好事，很受广大百姓爱戴，但因其子无才不太成器，他没把“天子”的皇位传给自己的儿子，而是传给了品德才能兼备的舜。尧对舜说：“你今后一定要把帝位传交好，待我死后也可安心瞑目了。”
后来舜把帝位传给了治洪水有功的禹，禹亦像舜那样亲民爱民为百姓做了很多好事，都十分受人爱戴。后来人们把尧死后，舜帝祭祀天地和先帝尧的那一天，当作一年的开始之日，把正月初一称为“元旦”，或“元正”，这就是古代的元旦。
介绍元旦的英语作文
Today is New Years day, the weather is sunny, my heart very happy, because
our family came to visit hongshan forest zoo.
First, we visited the panda, the panda panda eat bamboo while on the grass
in the sunshine, I think they are so cute! And then we went to the tiger
pavilion, attraction, there are around outside the fence to see the tiger! There
are white tiger and the east-northern tiger, they sometimes in repose, some is
constantly moving, and fall asleep! My favorite is the white tiger - tower, it
is a symbiotic 27 tigers only, and all survived, so called "hero" tiger ". But
it is very timid, and see so many people lie prone on the ground move.
Later, we went to see the naughty monkey, breathtaking ball screen film,
play space speed, rotating flying chair, etc...
Today is really happy!
今天是元旦，天气晴朗，我的心里格外高兴，因为我们一家来到了红山森林动物园游玩。
首先，我们参观了熊猫馆，那憨态可掬的熊猫在草地上一边吃竹子一边晒太阳，我觉得它们好可爱哦!
接着我们又来到了虎馆，那里游人如织，都围在栅栏外看老虎呢!这里有白虎和东北虎，它们有的在闭目养神，有的在不停地走动，还有的四脚朝天睡大觉呢!我最喜欢的就是那只白虎——辛塔，它一共生了27只小虎，而且全都活下来了，所以被称为“英雄母虎”。但是它很胆小，见到这么多游人就趴在地上一动不动。
后来，我们又去看了顽皮的猴子，惊险的球幕电影，玩了太空飞车、旋转飞椅等……
今天过得可真开心呀!
